After leaving South America, Li Bin's next stop is Croatia. Of course, although Croatia is shown on the map, Li Bin still thinks that the name here should be Yugoslavia - at least, from a football point of view, it is better to see Yugoslavia as a whole than as a divided individual.

People in the world of football always like to say: what if, then ......

These can include a lot of assumptions that people like to say. Among them, there is a common saying among England fans: if there is an English team instead of the England team......

Wales, Scotland have some good players, so people say that, but if you change the team that is not divided to Yugoslavia......

Yugoslavia's last World Cup was 90 years old, and they were considered to have a lot of potential, and then the national team disintegrated. But what if it doesn't disintegrate? Their midfield is Stojkovic and Boban, and they have Boksic and Savicevic in the forward line, and such teams are beyond the reach of Romania, Sweden, Bulgaria, Colombia and others.

And in '98, Croatia reached the semi-finals. If Yugoslavia hadn't been divided, their forward line would have been paired with Suker Mijatovic - these two were the main strikers of Real Madrid at that time. And if they can have more Boksic and Stojkovic in their midfield, it is very likely that the French team will be suppressed when they meet them.

And what about after entering the new century? What kind of strength will they have? They could have put together a team with Inter Milan goalkeeper Handanovic as goalkeeper, Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic, Borussia Dortmund defender Subotic, Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic, Manchester City defender Karov Karov at the back, Wolfsburg Misimovic, Roma Pjanic, Inter Milan Stankovic, Real Madrid Luka Modric, Manchester City Dzeko and Bayern Munich Mandzukic as strikers – is that enough? There are also Pandev, Kranica, Ibisevic, Zhikic, Vucinic, Rakitic on the bench, and, if you take into account that there is no war without division, and if no one emigrates without war, there should also be an Ibrahimovic on their forward line, known as the Red Rabbit of the people......

Of course, such a lineup only exists in the imagination, but there is nothing to be sorry for. In fact, the contradictions between the Serbs, the Croats, and the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina are very deep, and if they are combined into a team, they will play more effectively than the Netherlands and France, which will be the same as the tripartite team of China, Japan and South Korea - their own people will have to fight first.

But, if you don't think about that, this place is really a great place to produce stars, and they do have a football tradition in this place.

Li Bin's database even has such a passage: In 1956, the Yugoslav team won the Olympic championship and was invited to China to play against the Chinese team. At that time, Grandpa Mao was also there to watch in person - of course, the result was that the Chinese team was abused very miserably, and Grandpa Mao said angrily: At most thirteen years, give me back abuse! With his encouragement, four years later, in 1960, although the Chinese team did not play Yugoslavia, they abused Japan 6-0. It's just that when I met sports later, the football team also fell, and the players of that session later had many famous people, such as Xu Genbao, Qi Wusheng and others were all players of that year, and later became coaches.

Yugoslavia has always been a land rich in football talents, and it is a good place to choose materials, although historically, they have always been a good place to fight and make trouble because of the team, and the national team disputes are more than the Netherlands and France, and they have never achieved outstanding results, but they do produce stars, and the football school here can definitely reap a lot of results.

This is also the place where Li Bin has established a lot of football schools. Unlike backward regions that can rely on the transfer of coaches to cultivate a network, South America can rely on cooperation with brokerage companies to cultivate a network, Yugoslavia is a different scene. Football training here is no worse than in other European countries – the Danube football inherited from Austria in Yugoslavia has its own characteristics, and there is still a big gap between football in other parts of Europe.

Here, Li Bin has no way to build his scouting network by training coaches and co-opting agents, but he also has other ways to engage in this activity.

His method is simple, it is to give gifts.

Of course, when we talk about giving gifts, we are not giving gifts to officials. Giving gifts to officials, coaches, those are not of much significance. His method is to give gifts to the local players.

In many cases, there will be some leftovers from the club's sale. Many of them, which may have been just a school bag, a scarf, a drinking glass—very incorruptible and worthless—were all collected by him and given to young children here.

The club will not object to such an approach. After all, this is equivalent to cooperating with the club, and they don't need to contribute any money, and they don't need to contribute any funds, and the vast majority of clubs are still happy to do such cooperation.

And after they cooperated, it was tantamount to stepping into Li Bin's trap: for Li Bin, this was also a process of buying people.

Several countries in Yugoslavia have not developed very well over the years, and their young people need care.

This little bit of care is destined to take root in the future. Yes, many years later, it is impossible for everyone to become a star, and if they really become stars, it is estimated that they will not choose Parma, but with their cooperation, after nearly ten years, the young players of the year have grown up, they all have a good impression of Parma, the football world has always been a place that prefers to reuse people in the circle, and now, in the land of Yugoslavia, many players in the lower leagues, scouts, agents, young coaches, are all people who have been helped by Li Bin, These people have now formed another scouting network with Li Bin.

If you want to infiltrate an area, the best way is to follow the actual situation on the ground, proceed from reality, and then thoroughly master the area. South America has the case of South America, and Yugoslavia has the case of Yugoslavia. The different situations in these areas, against the drug, Li Bin has his current excellent scouting network.

Li Bin never expected that he would be able to rely on the little memory in his head to be domineering. I don't understand tactics, I don't have relationships, and I can't get mixed up in the circle at all. Although he is a traverser, he doesn't have a golden finger, but since he doesn't, I'll just make one myself.

The scouting network that I have laid out myself covers a wide area and covers more players at all levels, which is not necessarily worse than those with golden fingers. The coaching staff that I have assembled myself is much better than those who only look at fame and not real people. What I want to do is not to be opportunistic, win a few games and then triumphantly show off, what I want to do is to really be a coach, a real footballer.

And it is also by virtue of this relationship that after arriving in Croatia, he also found his friend, Babić, who was a technical coach in the Croatian national youth team.

"You're here to inspect Modric." didn't say a few words when they met, and Babich made it clear, "I think that there is only one player in Croatia who is worthy of your inspection." ”

Babich directly picked out Li Bin's mind in one sentence, indeed, although there are many players in the whole Croatia, at this time, age, strength, and all aspects of the effect have a good reflection, only one Modric. Li Bin is here now, naturally for Modric.

"Yes, what do you think of him?" Li Bin asked directly.

"First of all, I want to ask, what are you buying him back for? Playing at the back or at the front? Babich asked.

"Front."

"That's not appropriate. His technical characteristics are not suitable for playing the front midfield. As an Italian striker, he definitely needs to be very good with a small range of off-ball running, and the ability to make fine short passes, both of which Modric cannot meet, he cannot play as a midfielder. And when it comes to playing in the back, he's okay, but he needs to press more forward to fully reflect his playmaking role, and he's different from Andrea Pirlo's playmaker who plays the ball as the main purpose, he doesn't have that fine passing, but he can press with the ball. If you ask me what my opinion is, then his style of play is similar to Redondo, but not as fine as Redondo. ”

If I need a midfielder who can press with the ball, I might as well just use Yaya Toure from my own team. In this regard, Li Bin also sighed.

None of the deals I wanted to make seemed to succeed, and the reinforcements of the front midfielder were greatly frustrated. Although Rui Costa has not yet had a letter of approval, maybe it can. And in his own thoughts, he can also go to Wolfsburg to ask about the price of Dali Sandro, but it really doesn't work, take a step back and go to Inter to buy out Mofeo, but this kind of approach, after all, is not what Li Bin wants, he still wants to buy a better forward waist.

He even thought about going to Turkey to see Ribery. However, after inquiring, I learned that the contracts of Ribery and Galatasaray had not expired, and Marseille forcibly bought out the contract to take Run, and now the lawsuit on FIFA is in full swing, and it is boring to intervene by myself.

"It's really troublesome...... Li Bin sighed, and he was also a little helpless, "Since that's the case, there's nothing more to say, I won't read Modric's information, I can trust you." I just have one more thing I want to ask you: do you Croatian striker Olic have an EU passport? ”

The forward midfielder was not bought, and it was good to get one back as a substitute striker. However, in this regard, Babich also shook his head, "He doesn't have an EU passport, if you want to buy him, you have to use a non-European quota." ”

My main players are rented from Serie C, and you let me buy a substitute for the non-European quota? Li Bin thought about it and shook his head.

"But if you're really following the Russian Premier League, why aren't you paying attention to another good player in the Russian Premier League?"

"Vidic? The weekly salary of 70,000 yuan is equivalent to an annual salary of 3 million, can I buy it, can I use it? ”

"Why didn't I introduce the Serb players to you?" Babich rolled his eyes, "I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about another player in the Russian Premier League, if you want to buy a striker, why don't you go to Zenit in the Russian Premier League, and see if their striker Andre Arshavin is sold? ”

Andrei Arshavin? That Arshavin, who would become famous at Euro 2008, went to the arsenal and was known as the Tsar?

In memory, he became famous very late, which also made Li Bin not think of him. And Parma's Russian Premier League network pays more attention to the team in Moscow, and does not cover St. Petersburg, nor does it pay attention to him, but at this time, he has a feeling of seeing the sun.

Perhaps, he is really suitable?